Sprint Tells AT&T and Verizon to Back Off on the Pre

Both AT&T and Verizon have both been expressing their desire to get their paws on the Pre ASAP, but Sprint made sure to remind them on Friday: hands off, it's exclusive.

Sprint spokesman James Fisher said:

"We have the Pre through 2009."

Wouldn't want to waste a lot of time on extra words, now would we? But this actually does nothing more than verify what we already believed: that Sprint has six months exclusivity on the Pre.

However, it does not invalidate the belief that AT&T will have the Eos, a different Palm Web OS device, later this year, perhaps in December.